Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-07-23

regulate the wants and demands of
the working people without doing
violence to justice The day will
come when it can. In that day
those who now bear the curses of a
crude beginning will be forgotten.
History will then give bright page
to those who now cry down the un-
popular and oppressed, and a dark
page to the heretics of this day. Is
there a paper in the land, or an
associated press, or any manner OF
communication with the people, fair
enough to transmit DIR. McGlynn's
expressed views to the people 7 Not
one IT he says the land and the
fullness thereof belong to the people,
the flaming headlines of press and
pulpit make him say, "Dr. Nc
Glynn wants the earth !" Pitifnl
littleness Ungrateful meanness !!
And has any one noticed that while
he is pursued by every means that
can raise voice or scrawl pen, he
goes not out of his way to answer a
word.
Again They say he poses as a
martyr; when they themselves
seemingly take the greatest delight
in prolonging the torture of the cul-
prit. They (Mon. Preston) give it
out IN a newspaper interview N. Y.
Cath. American) that grauea' charges
exist than have been made public,
and when pressed for particulars,
merely reply with an owlish shake
of the head" They are in Rome;"
leaving us draw the inference that
their victims chastity is assailed i
the foulest imputation cast with the
foulest weapon. They rake up every
charge imaginable of himself and
his friends, away back to the dust
of generations-(See N. Y. Cath.
american of this week.. Yet for
fifty.two Sundays in a year they
preach in holy horror Of back-bit
ing, SANDER and detraction, but in
this case the end must justify the
means or their holy offices give them
the privileges without the penalties.
Unless your justice abound more
than that OF the Scribes and Phari-
sees !!
A WORKOUT CRY!
The salvation of one soul is of more
value than the conquest of an empire
Chdn,pldif,.
Accompanying all this hue and
cry against labor and land theories
is the constant wall, Obedience, sub.
mission, the poor you have always
with you, &C., to the end. 1t is all
very we'll in it's place. The work of
charity and benevolence is only
rightly begun and far from finished.
AS civilization and progress develop
the possibilities of religion and
society, so the needs and chances of
help to mankind increase and multi
ply. There is room for improvement
tor all and in every way. Religion
is not perfection yet by any means.
Abuse comes in with good. Many
are dying for want OF spiritual con-
ISOLATION while religion is resting
easy at better to. do-next-door
neighbours. The administration of
the sacraments and the admission
to christian worship are in some in
stances put above the price the
poor are able to pay,-not by the
consent of the church but by the
greed of a worldly ministry. III
Heaven is to be filled with intelli-
gence, refinement, comfort and ease,
then every poor parish worker in the
country is wasting time and effort,
and towering spire and titled digni
ty are far ahead in the long race for
salvation.
FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS
FEAR TO TREAD.
None but the learned in church
science should presume to review
her record, yet the passing student
of history asks in vain how some of
her acts of communication affect
ed faith and morals; in the privileges
and powers that were granted kings
and mobiles, in the limits to boun.
daries and titles and trades,-all
under pain. History is divided as
to her position when the greatest
act of human liberty was secured,-
the Magma Charta. Though oppos.
ed to slavery, policy and expediency
prevented its adjustment under
pain, and Lincoln did in one proc
lamation what the powers that be
trifled with for ages.
| 1t is not our province to dabble
into these deep questions, but to
every heart and mind it is given 60
feel and see in limited manner all
that concerns the spiritual or tenn
poral welfare of our fellow-man, be-
cause it is our own; and making
ample allowance for the odiousness
of comparison, there are many poor
souls who are more disturbed and
distressed by all this religious con-
fusion worse COMPOUNDED than those
most deeply interested. Men must
not necessarily set themselves up
against authority in differing with
it. The church is likened to a moth
er and few natural mothers there
are who would treat their children
with injustice or harsh severity
The church has provided wise
laws for the settlement of such ques.
tons, and only in extreme cases and
few, is Rome the last resort. With
Archbishop Corrigan she was the
first, and his piteously begging
letter to have his authority sustain.
ed showed the extremity of his case.
The fact that in the church the in.
ferior must invariably give way to
the superior, from the lowest to the
highest, is significant solution
Sack-cloth and ashes, in America or
Rome, was the only other alterna.
tive with DIR. McGlynn. In the
Pittsburg and Allegheny difficulty